The yarn came out beautifully, so excited to start a project with it. By the way it looks more pastel in natural light and has such a beautiful colour shift between the pink, grey and blue.
As I said a few video's ago I'm watching some of your old videos. One I would LOVE to see done again is Dyeing a cake yarn to create a unique variations of color. You took a cake and caked it with two strands, cut the strand at the end once it was caked up and then dyed it. you mentioned you could take the cake and not cut the two strands at the end so you would end up with a type of gradient. I would love to see this done again, it was so pretty and different.
These turned out so pretty! I got my shipping notice for the Halloween Mystery yarn today. I told my husband he needs to get it from the mailbox so that I don't take a peek and ruin the surprise! LOL
While I was watching this I was thinking that filling up the small graduated cylinder with water after adding your small amount of dye would have made it easier to spread evenly without making much difference in the volume. And also would like to see the results with adding straight dye to two samples but one's got more water in the pan, I guess an immersion volume matters experiment rather than a dye volume matters experiment!
First I bought some Jacquard Indigo dye and then you made videos about that before I did anything with it and now I'm planning to dye some Kroy yarn with a 1% DOS Jacquard Kelly Green as a solid and then somehow turn it into a sock blank to used a 4% DOS and probably some black which will hopefully become socks. I'm not really a knitter, but I did make one pair once and if all else fails there are classes at yarn stores. How do you know these things? It's like a radio station that somehow knows what song you had just mentioned to someone so they play it right away. :D
I would like to see an experiment where you compare adding diluted dye to a pan versus adding concentrated dye to a pan with a similar volume of water as if you'd used the diluted dyes. Like, what happens if you add water first and dye second vs dye + water at the same time.
I have a question, im getting into dyeing and i cant figure out if i could use a gas stove as a heating element or not- should i use something else or does a gas stove work fine-?
Some of the yarn dyed in this video is still available on Etsy! chemknitscreations.etsy.com/listing/1764521024
I confess to some doubts about the gray overdye, but you were so right. The gray adds a wonderful, subtle silvery tone to the finished yarn.
The yarns would have been lovely without the gray, but I think it helped tone things a bit to make the colorways feel more cohesive.
Would be interesting to see a similar experiment with caked yarn. 😊
Oooooooooo!!
I get so many ideas of how to play with yarn and dye from your videos.
I'm so glad! This is my goal.
I'm prepping to dye my first hank tomorrow and I've found your series very helpful, thanks!
I'm so glad I could help!
So pretty! My yarn and Dharma dyes were delivered yesterday- today is play and learn day!😊
Have fun!
The yarn came out beautifully, so excited to start a project with it. By the way it looks more pastel in natural light and has such a beautiful colour shift between the pink, grey and blue.
I'm so glad that you like the yarn!! The colors blended so beautifully. Thank you again!
As I said a few video's ago I'm watching some of your old videos. One I would LOVE to see done again is Dyeing a cake yarn to create a unique variations of color. You took a cake and caked it with two strands, cut the strand at the end once it was caked up and then dyed it. you mentioned you could take the cake and not cut the two strands at the end so you would end up with a type of gradient. I would love to see this done again, it was so pretty and different.
Yes to the kettle dyeing experiment, very interesting demo, thanks
You got it!
These turned out so pretty! I got my shipping notice for the Halloween Mystery yarn today. I told my husband he needs to get it from the mailbox so that I don't take a peek and ruin the surprise! LOL
It will be really obvious from the shipping packaging which bag it is. ;)
I always learn so much from you!
Thank you so much!
While I was watching this I was thinking that filling up the small graduated cylinder with water after adding your small amount of dye would have made it easier to spread evenly without making much difference in the volume. And also would like to see the results with adding straight dye to two samples but one's got more water in the pan, I guess an immersion volume matters experiment rather than a dye volume matters experiment!
It would have helped with adding the dye, but it would have reduced the finished difference a bit more.
First I bought some Jacquard Indigo dye and then you made videos about that before I did anything with it and now I'm planning to dye some Kroy yarn with a 1% DOS Jacquard Kelly Green as a solid and then somehow turn it into a sock blank to used a 4% DOS and probably some black which will hopefully become socks. I'm not really a knitter, but I did make one pair once and if all else fails there are classes at yarn stores. How do you know these things? It's like a radio station that somehow knows what song you had just mentioned to someone so they play it right away. :D
I wouldn't use Kelly green at a 4% dos, but if you're thinking of using the black that high it should be fine. Greens can be very intense!
I would like to see an experiment where you compare adding diluted dye to a pan versus adding concentrated dye to a pan with a similar volume of water as if you'd used the diluted dyes. Like, what happens if you add water first and dye second vs dye + water at the same time.
Ooo othis is interesting!
I have a question, im getting into dyeing and i cant figure out if i could use a gas stove as a heating element or not- should i use something else or does a gas stove work fine-?
I use a gas stove in my videos! I've been using these same steam pans on my gas stove for years now.